LETTING GO

After about 92 storyboard drawings and many hours of work and individual tutorials with the tutors, I had an animatic finished and was prepared to start animating scenes for the movie. Until, unlike my usual self, I decided to change the whole story and plot very close to deadline. Perhaps the fact that I didn't spend time mourning for putting all the work I'd done for that idea behind my back means that I made a good decision, but I am a bit put off about the fact that I will not reach the goal I had set of having started animating scenes before the Christmas break.
Following goes some of the main things I had done for that story.

Screen shot test to see if the characters would clash with the background. Although the background is not finished, I'd created a colour palette reference for the other backgrounds from inside the forest

This is one of the cliffs I was working on for the very first background of the film

The animatic. I can imagine that it is not easy to read what is happening at times, specially with some of the shots (particularly the childish drawing on the wall) that were in need of being replaced with the final designs

A very unfinished walk cycle test for the troll